New BioPerl 1.2 ToolKit Release

After 6 months of hard work by many BioPerl team members, head BioPerl'er Ewan Birney has coordinated the latest stable 1.2 release. This is an important upgrade because it reimplements access to various NCBI Entrez database resources using their new EUtils system.

Here's the relevant highlights from the release note:

The Bio::Perl module, which flattens the learning curve for newcomers has been extended and improved

Documentation resources have been updated and there is more of focus on making sure the documentation is consistent across the package

Access to the Entrez system at NCBI over http: now uses the EUtils system and is more robust

The SearchIO system for parsing search results (BLAST, HMMER and the like) has had many minor fixes, meaning that it is more useful in production environments

The Bio::Graphics system has had a number of small improvements, including alignment viewing

There is documentation on Windows installation

What's missing from the latest BioPerl toolkit release?

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